The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 7, 2017


Article Number		A33
Number of page(s)		10
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2017034
Published online		04 December 2017

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